Spatial Considerations in SAR Speckle Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 666-672

  Keith Raney, R ^a   Wessels, Gerrit J ^b  

^a RADARSAT Project Office ^*  (Canada)

^b Intera Information Technologies Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Resolution; Sampling; SAR; Spatial; Speckle

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS -- FOURIER TRANSFORMS; REMOTE SENSING -- COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SAR SPECKLE SIMULATION; SPECKLE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR;

EID: 0024072965     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.7693     Document Type: Article

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